St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-12
A MONSTER ASSEMBLY.
Tremendous Gathering of People in Hyde
Park. London, to protest Against
Irish Coercion.
The Mayor of Dublin Makes an Eloquent
Address Which is Enthusiastically
Received.
Michael Davitt Among the Speakers
--Hfsses For the Queen and
Cham mberlafn.
Again Evicters--The Gar
Threatened.

LONDON, April LINE gatnerlng IN
Hyde Park this afternoon was the largest
ever held in London. The people were
enthusiastic but orderly. The socialists
stole march OH the police, and erected
platforms from which several speakers de-
livered orations. They afterward held a
noisy meeting in Trafalgar square. Mr.
Gladstone watched the procession from a
window in Piccadilly, and was given an
ovation by the men i'll line. Estimates of
the attendance at the meeting vary, but it
is certain that $50, 900 persons, including
on-lOokers, were present. The procession
took an hour and half to file into the park.
The first contingent was composed OF the
members of the Robert Emmett lodge;
then followed a large number of Irish
temperance lodges, radical clubs and social
Democratic societies. Numerous bands of
music were in the line. While passing the
Carlton and other conservative clubs the
bands played the ''Dead March in
SauP' and the "Marseillaise." Green
banners and Irish national emblems were
conspicuous among the ranks of the parade
Among the notices displayed on the BAN
ners of the Radicals were these: Justice
to Ireland, Friendship, not Bayonets. :"
mo Coercion" The effect of the careful
arrangements that had been made to avoid
any confusion at the park was seen in the
admirable order in which the paraders
grouped themselves around the fourteen
platforms. The greatest throng gathered
around the platform from which Lord Mayor
Sullivan, of Dublin. and MeSsrS. Conybeare
and William Redmond, members of parlia-
ment, spoke. Lord Mayor Sullivan. in the
course of most effective speech, asked:
Tc iol, nf fhnx ,<>S
that the hopes of the hard-working tenantry
of Ireland shall be forever crushed DOWN."
A tremendous responsive Mo- resounded
throughout the park.
THE MENTION OF THE QUEEN
as about to celebrate her jubilee by signing
away the liberties of the people or Ireland,
brought forth a torrent Of Kisses, and the
mention of Mr.. Chamberlain's name aroused
tempest of groanS and Kisses, with cries
of Traitor" Mr.. Sullivan, in concluding,
assured his hearers that the demonstration
would carry hope and joy into the hearts of
the Irish. 1t would cheer many poor
struggling man to know that England was
no enemy of Ireland. SIN return, ;" he said.
don't let them believe those who say the
Irish are mortal, implacable enemies of
England. That is a falsehood worthy
of the bottomless pit. Cheers. Let there
be an end of oppression and injustice. and
there will be an end of hatred" Prolonged
cheers. Michael Davitt appeared at a
socialist platform. He referred to the
demonstration as proof of the,apprOach-
ing solidarity of the people of Great Britain
and ireland. In proportion as the masses
began to understand each other. so the
classes became alarmed. The privileged
classes well knew the tendency of the Irish
movement, and sought to crush the Irish
leaders, hoping to prevent the English peU-
pie following the example set them by the
Irish. But they would hold the fort in
Ireland. Cheers. On the day on which
the crimes act should become law they
would either have to give up the struggle
that had been waged for centuries, and lie
down as slaves. or render the system i'm
possible of duration. They would follow
the manler course. The classes had in thu
past built bridge Of hate across the Irish
Sea, and the people would pull it down and
erect bridge of love between the tOilers OF
Ireland and the workers of England.
Cheers. John Burnes, a socialist leader,
followed Mr. Davitt He declared that the
state of Ireland justified civil war, and
that the English people were ready to assist
the Irish peasants in revolt. At 4:3O
o'clock bugle sounded, and at this prear-
ranged signal resolution condemning the
crimes bill was put simultaneously at all of
the platforms. The resolution was carried
amid prolonged chorus of cheers.